FALSE ALARMS
ADELAIDE POLICE FOOLED “BOMB” IN FIREPLACE Twice in one night Adelaide police were called by people who had had the wits scared out of them. The first man said he had a bomb in his fireplace. When he came home, he said, he. heard a fizzing noise and in the dark fireplace was a metal object belching smoke. The object turned out to be a toy steam engine with a full head of steam up. The practical joker had timed boiling point to synchronise with the householder’s return. The second alarm came from a main who heard shots in an office building and saw on a blind the shadow of a man hanging from a rope. Inside policemen found a man lying on the floor with a revolver beside him. The hanging man was a brass effigy on the end of a cord, and the man on' the floor explained that he had “jush-. been ’avin’ few practish shots.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3264, 17 May 1943, Page 8
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161FALSE ALARMS Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3264, 17 May 1943, Page 8
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